Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Electric charge is a physical property.
Sent 2: It occurs between particles or objects.
Sent 3: It causes them to attract or repel each other.
Sent 4: They do not even have to touch.
Sent 5: This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar with.
Sent 6: All electric charge is based on the protons and electrons in atoms.
Sent 7: A proton has a positive electric charge.
Sent 8: An electron has a negative electric charge.
Sent 9: Forces on Charged Objects Most atoms are balanced electrically.
Sent 10: They have the same number of positive and negative charges.
Sent 11: Therefore, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.
Sent 12: Neutrons do not matter as they have no charge.
Sent 13: When an object loses some electrons, it becomes positively charged.
Sent 14: There are now more protons than electrons inside the atom.
Sent 15: The lost electrons may remain free.
Sent 16: Or, they may attach to another object.
Sent 17: The new object now has more electrons than protons.
Sent 18: It then becomes negatively charged. 
Question: What physical property occurs between particles and objects?.
A physical property between particles and objects is an electrical charge.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Tropical climates are found around the equator.
Sent 2: These climates have warm temperatures year round.
Sent 3: Tropical climates may be very wet or wet and dry.
Sent 4: Tropical wet climates occur at or very near the equator.
Sent 5: They have high rainfall year round.
Sent 6: Tropical rainforests grow in this type of climate.
Sent 7: Tropical wet and dry climates also occur near the equator.
Sent 8: They receive less rainfall.
Sent 9: Most of the rain falls in a single season.
Sent 10: The rest of the year is dry.
Sent 11: Few trees can withstand the long dry season.
Sent 12: The main plants are grasses.
Sent 13: Dry climates receive very little rainfall.
Sent 14: They also have high rates of evaporation.
Sent 15: This makes them even drier.
Sent 16: Deserts can get less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.
Sent 17: Thats less than 10 inches per year.
Sent 18: How much rain do you get at your house?. 
Question: What types of plants can survive the long dry season?.
Grasses.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Even after  Bin Laden's departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up.
Sent 2: The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity.
Sent 3: On March 7, 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and  Bin Laden.
Sent 4: Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA.
Sent 5: When the former  Bin Laden unit chief found out about Clarke's call, he questioned CIA officials, who denied having given such a clearance.
Sent 6: Imagery confirmed that less than a week after Clarke's phone call the camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted.
Sent 7: CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt, were irate."Sent 8: Mike" thought the dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting  Bin Laden.
Sent 9: The United Arab Emirates was becoming both a valued counterterrorism ally of the United States and a persistent counterterrorism problem.
Sent 10: From 1999 through early 2001, the United States, and President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE, one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan.
Sent 11: These efforts achieved little before 9/11.
Sent 12: In July 1999, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over  Bin Laden.
Sent 13: The Taliban did not take him seriously, however.
Sent 14: Bin Zayid later told an American diplomat that the UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region, but he also noted that the UAE did not want to upset the United States. 
Question: Why did Hamdan bin Zayid's threat to break relations with the Taliban achieve little results before 9/11?.

The Taliban did not take Hamdan bin Zayid's threats seriously, and because Hamdan bin Zayid valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region.

